Nevada Triangle Photo
More than 2,000 planes have crashed in the past 60 years, including UFOs and alien abduction in Nevada Triangle Area
India vs Sri Lanka Asia Cup Final Photos
Indian team members pose for a group photograph after India defeated Sri Lanka by 81 runs in the finals of the Asia Cup cricket match in Dambulla.
Praveen Kumar (L) celebrates the dismissal of Tillakaratne Dilshan (R) during the final match of the Asia Cup between Sri Lanka and India at the Rangiri Dambulla International Cricket stadium in Dambulla
Virat Kohli and Harbhajan Singh dance as they celebrate the victory over Sri Lanka by 81 runs in the finals of the Asia Cup cricket match
Doomsday Seed Vault Photos
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault (Norwegian: Svalbard globale frøhvelv) is a secure seedbank located on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen near the town of Longyearbyen in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago. The facility preserves a wide variety of plant seeds in an underground cavern. The seeds are duplicate samples, or "spare" copies, of seeds held in genebanks worldwide. The seed vault will provide insurance against the loss of seeds in genebanks, as well as a refuge for seeds in the case of large scale regional or global crises. The island of Spitsbergen is about 1,300 kilometres (810 mi) from the North Pole. The seed vault is managed under terms spelled out in a tripartite agreement between the Norwegian government, the Global Crop Diversity Trust (GCDT) and the Nordic Genetic Resource Center (also known as NordGen and previously named the Nordic Gene Bank, a cooperative effort of the Nordic countries under the Nordic Council of Ministers).
Construction of the seed vault, which cost approximately 45 million Norwegian Kroner (9 million USD), was funded entirely by the Government of Norway.Storage of seeds in the seed vault is free of charge. Operational costs will be paid by Norway and the Global Crop Diversity Trust. The primary funding of the Trust came from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, United Kingdom, Norway, Australia, Switzerland, and Sweden, though funding has been received from a wide variety of sources including four developing countries: Brazil, Colombia, Ethiopia, and India.
Germany 2010 FIFA World Cup Team Photo
Goalkeepers
* 1 Manuel NEUER
* 12 Tim WIESE
* 22 Hans Joerg BUTT
Defenders
* 3 Arne FRIEDRICH
* 4 Dennis AOGO
* 5 Serdar TASCI
* 14 Holger BADSTUBER
* 16 Philipp LAHM
* 17 Per MERTESACKER
* 20 Jerome BOATENG
Midfielders
* 2 Marcell JANSEN
* 6 Sami KHEDIRA
* 7 Bastian SCHWEINSTEIGER
* 8 Mesut OEZIL
* 13 Thomas MUELLER
* 15 Piotr TROCHOWSKI
* 18 Toni KROOS
* 21 Marko MARIN
Forwards
* 9 Stefan KIESSLING
* 10 Lukas PODOLSKI
* 11 Miroslav KLOSE
* 19 CACAU
Coach
* Joachim LOEW
* 1 Manuel NEUER
* 12 Tim WIESE
* 22 Hans Joerg BUTT
Defenders
* 3 Arne FRIEDRICH
* 4 Dennis AOGO
* 5 Serdar TASCI
* 14 Holger BADSTUBER
* 16 Philipp LAHM
* 17 Per MERTESACKER
* 20 Jerome BOATENG
Midfielders
* 2 Marcell JANSEN
* 6 Sami KHEDIRA
* 7 Bastian SCHWEINSTEIGER
* 8 Mesut OEZIL
* 13 Thomas MUELLER
* 15 Piotr TROCHOWSKI
* 18 Toni KROOS
* 21 Marko MARIN
Forwards
* 9 Stefan KIESSLING
* 10 Lukas PODOLSKI
* 11 Miroslav KLOSE
* 19 CACAU
Coach
* Joachim LOEW
Mammatus Clouds Photo Gallery
Mammatus clouds in Iraq in April 2006.Appearance The cloud appears to have smooth, round puffs hanging from its underside.
Mammatus clouds in Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1973
Mammatus clouds photographed from an aircraft over central New South Wales, Australia, 2008. Widespread storm activity in the area, but only light turbulence encountered.
Mammatus, also known as mammatocumulus (meaning "mammary cloud" or "breast cloud"), is a meteorological term applied to a cellular pattern of pouches hanging underneath the base of a cloud. The name mammatus is derived from the Latin mamma (meaning "udder" or "breast"), as some consider there is a resemblance between the characteristic shape of these clouds and the breast of a woman.
Penitentes Photos
Field of Penitentes on the upper Rio Blanco, Central Andes of Argentina. The blades are between 1.5 and 2m in height, slightly tilted northwards, or more exactly about 11°, the approximate position of the sun at noon at this latitude and time of the year.
Photograph of small penitentes taken in the summit crater of Mount Rainier. Photographed here, penitentes are approximately 50cm high tilted southwards towards the sun.
Penitentes ice formations at the southern end of the Chajnantor plain in Chile.
Penitentes, or nieves penitentes, are a snow formation found at high altitudes. They take the form of tall thin blades of hardened snow or ice closely spaced with the blades oriented towards the general direction of the sun. Penitentes can be as tall as a person.
These pinnacles of snow or ice grow over all glaciated and snow covered areas in the Dry Andes above 4,000 m (Lliboutry 1954a, Lliboutry 1954b, Lliboutry 1965). They range in size from a few cm to over five metres. (Lliboutry 1965, Naruse and Leiva 1997).
Ice Circles Photo Gallery
A collection of small ice pans (the largest about 12" (30 cm) in diameter) observed on the River Llugwy at Betws-y-coed, North Wales in December 2008. A fortnight of no rain had resulted in low water levels, and there had been sub-zero temperatures for a week.
An ice disc/disk or ice circle is a rare natural phenomenon that occurs in slow moving water in cold climates. They are thin and perfectly circular slabs of ice that rotate slowly in the water. It is believed that they form in eddy currents. Ice discs have most frequently been observed in Scandinavia and North America, but they are occasionally recorded as far south as England and Wales. An ice disc was observed in Wales in December 2008 and another was reported in England in January 2009.
Ice discs form on the outer bends in a river where the accelerating water creates a force called 'rotational shear', which breaks off a chunk of ice and twists it around.As the disc rotates, it grinds against surrounding ice — smoothing into a perfect circle.A relatively uncommon phenomenon, one of the earliest recordings is of a slowly revolving disc was spotted on the Mianus River and reported in a 1895 edition of Scientific American.
A collection of small ice pans (the largest about 12" (30 cm) in diameter) observed on the River Llugwy at Betws-y-coed, North Wales in December 2008. A fortnight of no rain had resulted in low water levels, and there had been sub-zero temperatures for a week.
An ice pan is a surface slab of ice that forms in the centre of a lake or creek instead of along the water's edge. They are formed by quick shifts in temperature. As water cools it releases heat that turns the water into frazil ice – a collection of loose, needle-shaped ice particles that can cluster together into an pan-shaped form. If a lake accumulates enough frazil ice and the current is slow, over time, the pan can become a 'hanging dam' – a dense piece of ice with high ridges and a low centre
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